Afzaal gives Northamptonshire spinners target to work with

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NORTHAMPTON (third day of four): Northamptonshire, with one second-innings wicket in hand, are 221 runs ahead of Glamorgan

MONTY PANESAR will today be asked to win for Northamptonshire a game which, for much of yesterday, they seemed certain to lose. A century of great application by Usman Afzaal, however, and support from a succession of team-mates, made it a long hard day of toil for Glamorgan who in early afternoon, when David Sales and Lance Klusener fell to successive balls, must have been looking for a victory themselves inside three days.

Instead, after Afzaal was joined in significant late-order partnerships